<p class="title">India's food ministry has sought more than 2 trillion rupees ($28.1 billion) to run the world's biggest food welfare programme in the fiscal year beginning April 1, three government sources said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But the government is likely to earmark only around 1.90 trillion rupees, they said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The finance ministry may not be able to allocate more than 1.9 trillion rupees in the budget," one source - an official - said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Details on the level of subsidy will be made public when Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the 2020/21 budget on Saturday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">An inadequate allocation could force the state-run Food Corp of India, the main grain procurement agency, to borrow up to $2 billion outside of the budget, said the same official.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The finance ministry spokesman was not immediately available for comment.</p>
<p class="title">India's food ministry has sought more than 2 trillion rupees ($28.1 billion) to run the world's biggest food welfare programme in the fiscal year beginning April 1, three government sources said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But the government is likely to earmark only around 1.90 trillion rupees, they said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The finance ministry may not be able to allocate more than 1.9 trillion rupees in the budget," one source - an official - said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Details on the level of subsidy will be made public when Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the 2020/21 budget on Saturday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">An inadequate allocation could force the state-run Food Corp of India, the main grain procurement agency, to borrow up to $2 billion outside of the budget, said the same official.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The finance ministry spokesman was not immediately available for comment.</p>